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FinovateFocus: Leverage New Tools and Technologies to Make Data Work for You

FinovateFocus: Leverage New Tools and Technologies to Make Data Work for You
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateFocus, Speaker series

Data Tools and Technologies is the theme of this month’s FinovateFocus event, which takes place less than a week from today on June 30. This two-hour, targeted networking and collaboration experience leverages smart algorithms to help attendees find like minds and make the best matches. In between networking sessions, FinovateFocus will feature short presentations on harnessing the power of data from fintech analysts, business leaders, and industry experts.

Book your ticket at our FinovateFocus hub today. Free registration for eligible director/head/SVP/C-level professionals from financial institutions is available. Visit our FinovateFocus hub for more information.

Here’s a look at what FinovateFocus has in store for next week’s presentations:

  • Transforming Relationship Managers into Trusted Advisors with Yamini Bhat, CEO and Co-Founder of Vymo.
  • Six Steps to Accelerate Your Progress on the Road to AI with Steven Ramirez, CEO, Beyond the Arc
  • Balancing Humans and Machines to Unlock Real-Time Finance Insights with Snehal Shinde, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Zeni Inc.

After the networking sessions and presentations, FinovateFocus will feature a set of fintech roundtables led by our experts. Themes and hosts for the June FinovateFocus roundtables next week are:

  • Maximizing sales effectiveness: The art of working with “small data” with Yamini Bhat, CEO and Co-Founder of Vymo
  • The power of data to enhance your services – from Open Banking through Open Finance to Open Data with Dr. Louise Beaumont, Chair of the Open Finance & Payments Working Group of TechUK
  • Strategies for developing and deploying AI more quickly with Steven Ramirez, CEO of Beyond the Arc
  • Leveraging data to provide a better borrowing experience for businesses with Sean Hunter, CIO of OakNorth

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FinovateFocus: From Payments and Remittances to Data Technology

FinovateFocus: From Payments and Remittances to Data Technology
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateFocus, Speaker series

This week featured the second of our new, all-digital FinovateFocus conferences. With a theme on payments, remittance, and foreign exchange within the fintech industry, our day-long offering of rapid-fire presentations and live roundtable Q&A sessions provided a fast-paced, no-fluff opportunity for financial services professionals to get up to speed on the latest in fintech – and to make the kind of high-quality connections that will lead to partnerships and collaborations in the weeks and months to come.

Scheduled for the fourth Thursday of every month, FinovateFocus enables like-minded professionals to discuss top issues within fintech, advance business objectives, and grow their networks.

To whet your appetite for our upcoming FinovateFocus in April, which will focus on Data Technology, here’s a look at the speakers and topics from our just-concluded FinovateFocus in March. In the meanwhile, to learn more about our upcoming April FinovateFocus event on April 22nd, visit our FinovateFocus hub today.

  • Millicent Tracey, Digital Payments Advisor, NACHA, on the buy now/pay later phenomenon in e-commerce. LinkedIn
  • Fergal de Clar, Marketing Manager, Fabrick International, on managing subscriptions from your banking app as a value-add for customers and an opportunity for customer engagement. LinkedIn.
  • Josh Stephens, VP of Product, Current, on the rising importance of instant payments. LinkedIn.
  • Matt King, Head of Payments Platform, Brex, on the build it or buy it innovation question with regard to financial partnerships at a time of hypergrowth. LinkedIn.
  • Timothy Chiodo, Director & Lead Analyst: Payments, Processors and Fintech, Credit Suisse, with a selection of key themes and topics on the minds of payments, processors, and fintech investors. LinkedIn.
  • Colin Wynd, Head of Real Time Payments Technology, The Clearing House, on the impact of faster and real-time payments. LinkedIn.
  • Mark Ruddock, CEO, BFS Capital, on how a new generation of small business owners is demanding change. LinkedIn.
  • Christopher Simco, VP, Emerging Payments Product Management, TD Bank, on how payments and innovation tempo are shaping consumer trust in banking. LinkedIn.
  • Gilles Ubaghs, Senior Analyst, Aite Group, on innovation in the payments industry, the familiar versus the new. LinkedIn.

To learn more about our upcoming April FinovateFocus event on April 22nd, visit our FinovateFocus hub today.

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Get Connected: FinovateFocus Tackles Digital UX

Get Connected: FinovateFocus Tackles Digital UX
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateFocus

If the debut of FinovateFocus next week (Thursday, February 25th) is anything like its preview – shared in-house a few days ago – then fintech fans who have been craving a truly 21st century digital fintech experience are in for a treat.

Today we’re taking a look at the first half of the event – FinovateFocus Connect – which runs for an hour starting at 9am Central. Connect features a roster of more than nine top fintech analysts and innovation specialists who will share their top takes on creating an optimal digital experience for your customers. Each three-minute presentation will be followed by a brief networking opportunity to ask questions and make connections with your fellow digital attendees – all based on preferences you determine in advance.

Here’s a peek at next week’s FinovateFocus Connect agenda.

  • Personalization and customization with data in the banking and payments industry
  • Earning customer trust in the digital age
  • Wealth Management: Competing for affluent digital-native clients
  • What do customers want: Meeting customer needs
  • Chatbots, AI, and automation as platforms for revolutionizing CX
  • APIs and Open Banking: Putting the customer in the driver’s seat
  • Boosting CX in banking with AI: Conversation banking and exploring back-end technology
  • Customer Experience 2021: Using data to drive CX strategy, business outcomes, and flawless execution

Remember, FinovateFocus: Digital UX kicks off Thursday, February 25. The Connect component of the event will lead off at 9am Central. The FinovateFocus Roundtable event will follow at 10:30 am Central.

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Our FinovateFocus Events are Free this Month

Our FinovateFocus Events are Free this Month
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFocus

If you have the WiFi, we’ll bring the content. This month, we’re hosting two FinovateFocus events– Connect and Roundtable. Both events are free to attend and will take place on February 25 from 9 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Central Standard Time.

Register for these all-digital micro events and you’ll not only have access to great content, but you’ll also have the opportunity to check out the unique format and full roster of discussions and networking.

This month’s discussions will focus on the digital user experience. Now more than ever, your digital user experience is what your customers see; it shapes how they view your organization. Our dive into digital will help inform how you can leverage your UX to increase sales, create happy customers, and increase operational efficiency.

Here’s what to expect at each event:

FinovateFocus Connect

This event maximizes your time by bringing you nine presentations and nine meetings, all within the span of an hour. The platform will alternate between three-minute presentations and three-minute meetings, which are pre-assigned based on common interests.

FinovateFocus Roundtable

This discussion-based event includes your choice of two moderated, 30-minute roundtables with 15 minutes of networking before and after each roundtable conversation. To encourage engagement, each roundtable is limited to eight participants each.

Roundtable discussions for this month’s event include:

  • Earning customer trust in the digital age
  • Future of payments –are we turning into a cashless society?
  • Effective customer acquisition, engagement, and retention – the Experience Age
  • Boosting CX in banking with AI – conversation banking: exploring back-end technologies
  • Authentication, biometrics, and digital identity in digitized society
  • Chatbots, AI, automation as a platform for revolutionizing the CX
  • Personalization and customization with data in the banking and payments industry
  • Insights into how to support financial futures for customers in a post-COVID-19 world
  • Customer Service NOW
  • Video banking as a preferred means of customer communication
  • What do customers want – Meeting customer needs
  • APIs and Open Banking – Putting the customer in the driver’s seat

FinovateFocus starts on February 25. The Connect portion will run from 9 am to 10 am Central time while the Roundtable portion will run from 10:15 am to 10:45 am Central time. Both events are free to attend, so sign up early.

While you’re signing up, check out the deals for FinovateFocus sessions in March, April, May, and June available on the registration page. Sign up for a single event or purchase a bundle package to save.

Here are the topics we have planned for the months ahead:

  • March- Small business survival
  • April- Maximizing your data’s value
  • May- Rethinking your core
  • June- Moving money
  • July- Half year review

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Get Ready for Finovate in Focus

Get Ready for Finovate in Focus
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFocus

Next month, we’re introducing a new way to focus on the hottest themes in fintech through our new event series. Dubbed FinovateFocus, the new series includes two micro-events that take place on the last Thursday of every month.

Each micro-event– FinovateFocus Connect and FinovateFocus Roundtable– serves up new content and ample networking opportunities to help you stay ahead of the curve on a new topic in fintech while forming relationships with key players. And we’re keeping things simple; FinovateFocus Connect is only one hour while FinovateFocus Roundtable is an hour and a half.

You can choose which format works best for you:

FinovateFocus Connect

This event maximizes your time by bringing you nine presentations and nine meetings, all within the span of an hour. The platform will alternate between three-minute presentations and three-minute meetings, which are pre-assigned based on common interests.

FinovateFocus Roundtable

This discussion-based event includes your choice of two moderated, 30-minute roundtables with 15 minutes of networking before and after the roundtable conversation. To encourage engagement, each roundtable is limited to eight participants each.

For the February event, here are the roundtable discussions to choose from:

  • Earning customer trust in the digital age
  • Future of payments –are we turning into a cashless society?
  • Effective customer acquisition, engagement, and retention – the Experience Age
  • Boosting CX in banking with AI – conversation banking: exploring back-end technologies
  • Authentication, biometrics, and digital identity in digitized society
  • Chatbots, AI, automation as a platform for revolutionizing the CX
  • Personalization and customization with data in the banking and payments industry
  • Insights into how to support financial futures for customers in a post-COVID-19 world
  • Customer Service NOW
  • Video banking as a preferred means of customer communication
  • What do customers want – Meeting customer needs
  • APIs and Open Banking – Putting the customer in the driver’s seat

More themes each month

If February’s topic of digital UX doesn’t pique your interest, we’ll be highlighting Small Business Survival in March and Maximizing Your Data’s Value in April. We’ll release the remainder of next quarter’s topics soon so stay tuned.

See you next month!

FinovateFocus starts on February 25 with the topic of digital user experience. The Connect portion will run from 9 am to 10 am Central time while the Roundtable portion will run from 10:15 am to 10:45 am Central time.

Registration opens soon so get ready to secure your spot!

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